Part 19

MACCABE, WILLIAM BERNARD. _b._ Dublin 23 Nov. 1801; reporter on the Dublin Morning register from 1823; edited provincial Irish newspapers; employed on the Morning Chronicle in London from about 1833, to which he contributed critical reviews; a reviewer on the Morning Herald 1835 to about 1850; edited The Telegraph newspaper in Dublin in the interest of cardinal Wiseman 1852–7; lived in Brittany many years; translated J. Venedy’s Ireland and the Irish during the repeal year, 1844, and J. J. I. Von Doellinger’s The church and the churches 1862; author of A catholic history of England 3 vols. 1847–54; Bertha, a romance of the dark ages 3 vols. 1851; Adelaide queen of Italy 1856, 2 ed. 1860; Florine princess of Burgundy 1855, 3 ed. 1873; contributed to Once a Week, Notes and Queries, and the Dublin Review. _d._ Donnybrook, co. Dublin 8 Dec. 1891.

M’CALL, ALLAN. _b._ Dumfries 1850; an architect; leader of Livingstonia mission in Nyasa-Land, travelled between fifteen and twenty thousand miles in South Africa 1872–8. _d._ Madeira 25 Nov. 1881. _bur._ Leicester cemet. 18 Jany. 1882.

MC CALL, WILLIAM. Ensign 79 foot 29 March 1839, major 12 Dec. 1854 to 5 Aug. 1857 when placed on h.p.; standard bearer to corps of gentlemen at arms 30 Sep. 1872 to death. _d._ 7 Bruton st. Berkeley sq. London 20 Dec. 1875.

MACCALL, WILLIAM (eld. son of John Maccall of Largs, Ayrshire, tradesman). _b._ Largs 25 Feb. 1812; entered Glasgow univ. 1827, M.A. 1833; Unitarian minister at Bolton, Lancs. 1837–40 and at Crediton, Devon 1841–6; preacher, lecturer and writer for the press in London 1846–61; edited The Propagandist 1862; author of The agents of civilization 1843; Sacramental services 1847; The elements of individualism 1847; Foreign biographies 2 vols. 1873; Russian Hymns 1878; Moods and memories 1885. _d._ Stanhope cottage, Woolwich road, Bexley Heath, Kent 19 Nov. 1888.

MAC CALMONT, FREDERICK HAYNES (2 son of rev. Thomas Mac Calmont of Highfield near Southampton). _b._ Highfield 1846; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1869, B.C.L. and M.A. 1872; barrister M.T. 30 April 1872; resided at Southampton, member of the school board, alderman; author of The parliamentary poll book of all elections 1832–79, 1879, Second ed. 1880, Third ed. 1885. _d._ Radley’s hotel, Southampton 4 Nov. 1880. _Solicitors’ Journal_, _xxv_ 56 (1880).

M’CALMONT, HUGH (3 son of Hugh M’Calmont of Abbeylands, co. Antrim, _d._ 1839). _b._ 1809; member of firm of M’Calmont Brothers & Co., merchants at 15 Philpot Lane, Cannon st. London; resided at 8 Grosvenor place, London and at Abbeylands, co. Antrim; bequeathed £100,000 to St. George’s hospital, London. _d._ 9 Oct. 1887, the value of his personal property was declared at £3,121,931 7s. 8d., Dec. 1887.

MC CANN, NICHOLAS (son of Thomas Mc Cann of Lismoy house, co. Longford). _b._ 1802; M.R.C.S. 1827, L.S.A. 1834; M.D. St. Andrews 1855; L.R.C.P. Edinb. 1859; surgeon to Western dispensary, London 1831–43; surgeon to royal humane soc. 1837; fellow of Medical soc. of London; surgeon to A division of police 1839; examining physician to foreign service messengers 22 Nov. 1858 to death. _d._ 50 Parliament st. London 24 Jany. 1867.

MACCARTHY, SIR CHARLES JUSTIN. _b._ Brighton 1811; auditor general of Ceylon 1847, colonial secretary there 1851; governor of Ceylon 23 Aug. 1860 to death; knighted by patent 10 July 1857. _d._ Spa, Belgium 14 Aug. 1864.

M’CARTHY, DANIEL. _b._ near Kenmare, co. Kerry 1823; ed. Maynooth coll., teacher of rhetoric 1846, professor of scripture and Hebrew 1854, vice president 1872–8; bishop of Kerry and Aghadoe, consecrated 25 Aug. 1878; editor of L. F. Renehan’s Collections on Irish church history 1861; M. Kelly’s Dissertations on Irish church history 1864; author of Sermons on the immaculate conception 1880. _d._ Killarney, July 1881. _Times 28 July 1881 p._ 10.

MACCARTHY, DENIS FLORENCE. _b._ Lower Sackville st. Dublin 26 May 1817; ed. at Dublin and Maynooth; called to Irish bar 1846; contributed a series of political verse to The Nation newspaper over signature of Desmond 1842; an original member of the ’82 club formed in 1844, on the council of the confederation 1847; resided in London 1872–82; contributed poems and humorous prose papers to periodicals signed Desmond, Vig, Trifolium, Antonio, S. E. Y. and D. F. M.; his translations of Calderon’s works appeared in six issues as follows, Justina, a play 1848; Dramas 1853; Love the greatest enchantment 1861; Mysteries of Corpus Christi 1867; The two lovers of heaven 1870; The wonder-working musician, &c. 1873; for the six volumes he was granted medal of royal academy of Spain 1881; granted civil list pension of £100, 3 Aug. 1870; author of The poets and dramatists of Ireland 1 vol. 1846; Ballads, poems and lyrics 1850; The bell founder 1857; Shelley’s Early life 1872; Poems 1882. _d._ Blackrock near Dublin 7 April 1882. _Dublin Review_, _April 1883 pp._ 261–93.

MAC CARTHY, HAMILTON WRIGHT (2 son of John James Alexander Mac Carthy, artist). _b._ 1810; sculptor and poet; exhibited 23 pieces of sculpture at R.A. and 13 at B.I. 1838–67. _d._ 17 Springfield villas, Kilburn, London 2 Feb. 1882.

MC CARTHY, JOHN F. (son of Michael Mc Carthy). _b._ 1862; provision merchant at Tipperary; M.P. mid division of Tipperary 18 July 1892. _d._ Roscrea, Tipperary 8 Feb. 1893.

MACCARTHY, JOHN GEORGE (son of John Maccarthy of Cork). _b._ Cork, June 1829; founded with Justin Mac Carthy, Cork historical society 1849; founded Cork Young men’s society 1852; solicitor at Cork 1853–81; M.P. Mallow 1874–80; assistant comr. under Land act of 1881, 1881–6; one of the two comrs. under land purchase act of 1885, 1886 to death; made a knight of the order of St. Gregory by Leo XIII. Feb. 1880; author of The history of Cork, a lecture. Cork 1856; Irish land questions plainly stated and answered 1870; The French revolution of 1792, its causes etc. Dublin 1884; Henry Grattan, a historical study, Dublin 1886. _d._ Euston hotel, London 7 Sep. 1892. _bur._ Glasnevin cemet. Dublin. _Irish Law Times_, _xxii_ 116 (1888).

MC CAUL, ALEXANDER. _b._ Dublin 16 May 1799; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 3 Oct. 1814, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1831, B.D. and D.D. 1837; tutor to Earl of Rosse; sent to Poland by London Soc. for promoting Christianity among the Jews 1821; C. of Huntley near Gloucester 1823; head of the mission to the Jews, and English chaplain at Warsaw 1823–30; settled in London 1832; published Old Paths, a weekly pamphlet on Jewish ritual 60 numbers 1836–37; principal of the Hebrew college, London 1840; declined bishopric of Jerusalem 1841; professor of Hebrew and Rabbinical literature in King’s college, London 1841–6, professor of divinity 1846–53, professor of ecclesiastical history Dec. 1853 to 1863; R. of St. James’s, Duke’s place, London 1843–50; preb. of St. Paul’s 1845 to death; declined bishoprics of Adelaide, Newcastle and Capetown 1847; R. of St. Magnus, St. Margaret and St. Michael, Fish st. hill, London 21 Jany. 1850 to death; proctor for the London clergy in convocation 1852 to death; author of A Hebrew primer 4 ed. 1836; Lectures on the Prophecies and The Messiahship of Christ, being Warburtonian lectures 2 series 1846–52; Rationalism and the divine interpretation of scripture 1850; Some notes on the first chapter of Genesis 1861; Testimonies to the divine authority of the holy scripture 1862; An examination of bishop Colenso’s difficulties with regard to the Pentateuch 2 vols. 1863–4 and 50 other works. _d._ St. Magnus’s rectory, London 13 Nov. 1863. _bur._ Ilford, Essex 20 Nov. _J. B. Mc Caul’s Memoir of A. Mc Caul_ (1863); _I.L.N. xxiv_ 400 (1854), _portrait_.

MC CAUL, JOHN. _b._ Dublin 7 March 1807; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1824, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1829, LL.B. and LL.D. 1835, classical tutor and examiner; principal of the Upper Canadian coll. Nov. 1838; V.P. of King’s coll. Toronto and professor of classics, logic, rhetoric and belles lettres 1842; pres. of univ. of Toronto 1849; pres. of univ. coll. and V.C. of univ. of Toronto 1853–81; M.R.I.A.; author of Remarks explanatory and illustrative on the Terentian metres 1828; The metres of the Greek tragedians explained 1828; Selections from Lucian, with English notes 1829; Remarks on the classical studies pursued in the university of Dublin 1834; Scansion of the Hecuba and Medea of Euripides 1836; Britanno-Roman inscriptions with critical notes. Toronto and London 1863; Christian epitaphs of the first six centuries 1869. _d._ 15 April 1887. _H. J. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 254–5.

MC CAUL, JOSEPH BENJAMIN (son of Alexander Mc Caul 1799–1863). Ed. King’s coll. London, theological associate 1850; assistant in British Museum 1846–9 and engaged upon the compilation of the catalogue March 1851 to 1865; censor, reader and divinity lecturer, King’s coll. 1852–54; C. of St. Magnus the Martyr, London 1851–4; C. of All Saints’, Gordon sq. London 1854–5; C. of St. Edmund the King, Lombard st. 1858–65; chaplain at Amsterdam 1877–9; R. of St. Michael, Bassishaw 1865 to death; hon. canon of Rochester 1865 to death; author of The abbé Migne and the Bibliothèque universelle du clergé 1857; The ten commandments, the christian’s spiritual instructor 1861; Bishop Colenso’s Criticism criticised 1862; The epistle to the Hebrews in a paraphrastic commentary 1871; Dark sayings of old, an attempt to elucidate certain passages of scripture 1873; A concise exposition of St. Paul’s epistle to the Romans 1882; The last plague of Egypt and other poems 1879. _d._ 11 Flander’s road, Turnham Green near London 3 Feb. 1892.

MC CAUSLAND, DOMINICK (3 son of Marcus Langford Mc Causland of Roe park, co. Londonderry). _b._ Roe park 20 Aug. 1806; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1822, gold medallist for science 1827, B.A. 1827, LL.B. and LL.D. 1859; called to Irish bar 1835, went north western circuit; a crown prosecutor for co. Fermanagh 1859 to death; Q.C. 4 July 1860; author of The latter days of the Jewish church and nation as revealed in the Apocalypse. Dublin 1841; The times of the Gentiles as revealed in the Apocalypse. Dublin 1852, reissued 1857, both were combined in a 2nd ed. as The latter days of Jerusalem and Rome 1859; Sermons in stones 1856, 13 ed. 1873; Adam and the Adamite 1864, 2 ed. 1868; Shinar the confusion of language 1867; The builders of Babel 1871. _d._ 12 Fitzgibbon st. Dublin 29 June 1873. _W. D. Ferguson’s Memoir of D. Mc Causland_ (1873); _Irish Law Times_, _vii_ 354 (1873).

MC CAUSLAND, JOHN KENNEDY. _b._ 1803; entered Bengal army 1818; commanded Gwalior district 20 Jany. 1860 to 13 Feb. 1861; retired L.G. 31 Dec. 1861; C.B. 21 March 1859. _d._ Melrose villa, Cheltenham 23 July 1879.

MC CAW, WILLIAM. _b._ Antrim; minister of presbyterian church, Bridge st. Strangeways near Manchester, Nov. 1846; author of Truth frae ’mang the heather 1856, 5 ed. 1880; The gospel and total abstinence 1857; Romanism, ritualism and revelation 1876. _J. Evans’ Lancashire authors_ (1850) 166–70.

MC CLEAN, JOHN ROBINSON. _b._ Belfast 1813; studied at univ. of Glasgow; a civil engineer in London 1844; constructed harbour, docks and railways of Barrow in Furness; partner with F. C. Stileman 1849; engineer of harbours of Dover 1851, Alderney 1862 and St. Catherine’s, Jersey 1862 &c.; sent to Egypt as comr. to report on the Suez canal route; served on several royal commissions; retired from practice 1868; contested Belfast 3 April 1857; M.P. east Staffs. 17 Nov. 1868 to death; chairman of Anglo-American telegraph co.; M.I.C.E. June 1844, member of council 1848, vice pres. 1858, pres. 1864 and 1865; F.R.S.; F.G.S.; F.R.A.S. 8 Jany. 1858. _d._ Stonehouse, Isle of Thanet 13 July 1873, personalty sworn under £700,000, 6 Sep. 1873. _Monthly notices of R.A.S. xxxiv_ 148 (1874); _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxviii_ 287–91 (1874); _Humber’s Modern engineering 3rd series_ (1865), _portrait_.

MC CLELLAND, JAMES. _b._ Ayr 18 Jany. 1799; accountant Glasgow, March 1824, retired 1874, had many apprentices in his business; president of royal institution of accountants, Glasgow 1853; great friend of George Combe the phrenologist; removed to London 1874. _d._ 32 Pembridge sq. London 24 Oct. 1879. _W. C. Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 185–6 (1886), _portrait_.

MC CLELLAND, JOHN. Surgeon Bengal army 30 Nov. 1846; inspector general of hospitals 8 Nov. 1860, principal inspector general 1864 to 24 Nov. 1865 when he retired; conducted The Calcutta journal of natural history 1841; author of Reports on investigation of coal and mineral resources of India 1838; Some inquiries in Kemaon relative to geology 1835; Sketches of the medical topography and soils of Bengal 1859. _d._ 29 Marina, St. Leonards-on-Sea 31 July 1883.

M’CLINTOCK, JOHN (eld. son of John M’Clintock of Drumcar, M.P. Enniskillen, _d._ 1799). _b._ 14 Aug. 1770; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1790; sheriff of co. Louth 1798; present at battles of Arklow 10 June 1798 and Vinegar Hill 12 June 1798; serjeant at arms with his younger brother Wm. Foster M’Clintock 1794 to 1800 when a pension of £2545 was assigned to them in compensation for the office; M.P. Athlone, Westmeath 24 March 1820 to May 1820 when he was appointed escheator of Munster. _d._ Drumcar, co. Louth 12 July 1855.

MC CLURE, SIR ROBERT JOHN LE MESURIER (son of Robert Mc Clure, captain 89 foot, _d._ 1806). _b._ Wexford 28 Jany. 1807; ed. at Eton and Sandhurst; entered navy 1824; mate of the Terror in her Arctic voyage 1836–7; commanded the Romney at Havana 1842–6; first lieut. of the Investigator in sir J. C. Ross’s Arctic expedition 1848–9 and commander of her in Collinson’s expedition, sailed from Plymouth 20 Jany. 1850, discovered the north-west passage 26 Oct. 1850, the Investigator was forced into a bay on the north shore of Banks’ Land 23 Sep. 1851 where in 1853 she was abandoned; crossed Banks’s Strait to Winter harbour in Melville Island, April 1852; arrived in England in the North Star 28 Sep. 1854, tried by court martial for loss of his ship when honourably acquitted; captain 18 Dec. 1850; knighted at Windsor Castle 21 Nov. 1855; parliament awarded £10,000 to officers and crew of the Investigator 1855; captain of the Esk 1856; commanded a battalion of the naval brigade at capture of Canton, Dec. 1857; C.B. 20 May 1859; R.A. 20 March 1867, retired V.A. 29 May 1873; awarded good service pension 12 Sep. 1863. _d._ 25 Duke st. St. James’s, London 17 Oct. 1873. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 25 Oct. _The north-west passage. Capt. Mc Clure’s despatches_ (1853); _S. Osborn’s Discovery of a north-west passage 4 ed._ (1865); _A. Armstrong’s Discovery of the north-west passage_ (1857); _S. Cresswell’s Eight sketches of the voyage of H.M.S. Investigator_ (1854); _Graphic_, _viii_ 407, 412 (1873), _portrait_.

MC CLURE, SIR THOMAS, 1 Baronet (son of William Mc Clure, merchant). _b._ Belfast 4 March 1806; ed. at Belfast royal academical institution; merchant Belfast; sheriff of Downshire 1864 and vice lieut. 17 June 1872 to 1886; M.P. Belfast 1868–74; contested Belfast 6 Feb. 1874; M.P. Londonderry 1878–85; cr. a baronet 20 March 1874. _d._ Belmont near Belfast 21 Jany. 1893. _Daily Graphic 23 Jany. 1893 p._ 8, _portrait_.

M’COLLUM, THOMAS. Lessee with Wm. Charman of New royal amphitheatre, Holborn, London, opened 25 May 1867. _d._ 7 Oakden st. Kennington road, London 22 March 1872 aged 44. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 26 March. _Illust. Times 22 June 1867 p._ 392, _view of interior of Holborn amphitheatre_.

MC COMB, WILLIAM (son of Thomas Mc Comb of Coleraine, Londonderry, draper). _b._ Coleraine 17 Aug. 1793; teacher of Brown st. daily school, Belfast to 1828; bookseller in High st. Belfast 1828, retired 1864; established Mc Comb’s Presbyterian Almanac 1840 which ran to 1873; author of The dirge of O’Neill 1817; The school of the Sabbath 1822, 2 ed. 1825; The voice of a year, or recollections of 1848, with other poems 1849; Poetical works 1864. _d._ Colin View terrace, Belfast 13 Sep. 1873.

MC COMBIE, WILLIAM (only child of William Mc Combie, farmer). _b._ Cairnballoch, parish of Alford, Aberdeenshire 8 May 1809; a labourer on his father’s farm; farmed Cairnballoch to 1867; contributed to newspapers, to the British Quarterly Review, and to Journal of sacred literature; joined staff of North of Scotland gazette 1849; edited the Aberdeen Daily Free press from first number 6 May 1853 to death; a preacher in John st. Baptist ch. Aberdeen; author of Hours of thought 1835, 3 ed. 1856; Moral agency and man as a moral agent 1842; Memoirs of Alexander Bethune 1845; Use and abuse, the relation to labour of capital, machinery and land 1852; On education, in its constituents, objects and issues 1857. _d._ Broadford Bank, Aberdeen 6 May 1870. _Aberdeen Daily Free Press 13 May 1870 p._ 5; _Newspaper Press_, _iv_ 153–4 (1870); _Nicoll’s James Macdonald, journalist_ (1890) 34–9.

MC COMBIE, WILLIAM (younger son of Charles Mc Combie, farmer, Tillyfour). _b._ Tillyfour farm, Aberdeenshire 1805; ed. at Aberdeen univ.; a farmer of 1200 acres and cattle-dealer at Tillyfour; began to breed black-polled cattle 1840, fatted about 300 oxen a year; the first Scottish exhibitioner of fat cattle at Birmingham; won over 500 prizes for his cattle; one of the largest farmers in Aberdeenshire; known as the ‘Grazier King’; M.P. West Aberdeenshire 1868–76, being the first tenant farmer returned from Scotland; author of Cattle and cattle breeders 1867; The Mc Combe annual prize for black-polled cattle establed at Aberdeen 1876. _d._ Tillyfour farm, Aberdeenshire 1 Feb. 1880. _Times 3 Feb. 1880 p._ 5; _Graphic_, _xxi_ 196 (1880), _portrait_; _W. M’Combie’s Cattle breeders 4 ed._ (1886), _memoir xi–xviii_; _Aberdeen Daily Free Press 3 Feb. 1880_; _James Macdonald’s History of polled Angus cattle_ (1882).

NOTE.--His champion ox Black Prince shown at Smithfield in 1866 was by command sent to Windsor to be inspected by the Queen. On 12 July 1867 she visited Tillyfour farm.

MACCOMO, MARTINI. _b._ Angola, south-west Africa 1839; lion tamer at circus of Messrs. Stone and Mc Collum, New York 1855; travelled through the United States; came to England 1857, engaged by Wm. Manders proprietor of menagerie, first appeared in England at Deptford 1857; travelled with Manders as the African Lion King 1857 to death. _d._ from rheumatic fever at Palatine hotel, Sunderland 11 Jany. 1871. _Era 15 Jany. 1871 p._ 11, _col._ 1; _Baily’s Mag. xliii_ 15–16 (1885).

MC CONNELL, WILLIAM. _b._ Warwick st. Regent st. London 29 Sep. 1831; a draughtsman on wood of illustrations to humourous books; on the original staff of The Train, a magazine 1 Jany. 1856; illustrated Oliver Oldfellow’s Our School 1857; G. F. Pardon’s The Months 1858; G. A. Sala’s Twice round the clock 1859; J. Rodenberg’s Tag und Nacht in London 1862; Upside down, or turnover traits with verses by Thomas Hood the younger 1868. _d._ of consumption at 17 Tavistock st. Bedford sq. London 14 May 1867.

M’COOLE, MICHAEL. _b._ Ireland 12 March 1837; boatman on the Mississippi river; was 6 feet and ¾ of an inch high and 200 lbs. in weight; beat Wm. Narry at Louisville, Kentuckey, April 1858; beat Tom Jennings near New Orleans 2 May 1861; fought Joseph Coburn for 2000 dollars and the championship at Cecil county, Maryland 5 May 1863 when Coburn won; fought Wm. Davis for 2000 dollars and a champion belt at Rhoads Point near St. Louis 19 Sep. 1866 when M’Coole won; fought Aaron Jones for the championship at Busenburk station, Ohio 31 Aug. 1867 when M’Coole won; fought Tom Allen for 1000 dollars a side and the championship at Foster’s Island, St. Louis 15 June 1869 when M’Coole won; fought Allen again at Chateau island, St. Louis 23 Sep. 1873 when Allen won; arrested 29 Oct. 1873 for shooting Patsy Mavery the pugilist at St. Louis, when put under 20,000 dollars bail; rearrested and found guilty of wilful murder by the coroner’s jury but the matter was squashed. _d._ New Orleans 17 Oct. 1886. _W. E. Harding’s Champions of the American prize ring_ (1884) 14, 18–20, _portrait_.

MC CORKINDALE, DUNCAN (son of Duncan Mc Corkindale). _b._ Campbeltown, Argyllshire 2 Feb. 1809; a clerk in Glasgow, then in London, returned to Glasgow, retired from business 1857; author of Sketches of genius and other poems 1831; Poems of early and later years 1863; A raid in the Highlands 1868. _R. Inglis’ Dramatic writers_ (1868) 134–5.

MACCORMAC, HENRY (son of Cornelius Maccormac an officer in the navy). _b._ Fairlawn, co. Armagh 1800; studied at Dublin, Paris and Edinb., M.D. Edinb. 1824; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1824; a physician at Belfast; phys. to Belfast fever hospital, took charge of the cholera hospital 1832; visiting phys. to Belfast district lunatic asylum to death; professor of theory and practice of medicine in royal Belfast institution; author of A treatise on the cause and cure of hesitation of speech or stammering 1828; The philosophy of human nature 1837; On the nature, treatment and prevention of pulmonary consumption 1855, 2 ed. 1865; Metanoia, a plea for the insane 1861; Consumption and the breath rebreathed 1872. _d._ Fisherwick place, Belfast 26 May 1886.

MC CORMICK, ROBERT (son of Robert Mc Cormick, surgeon in the navy, drowned 1811). _b._ Runham near Great Yarmouth 22 July 1800; studied at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals 1821; M.R.C.S. 6 Dec. 1822, F.R.C.S. 1844; assistant surgeon R.N. 1823; served in sir E. Parry’s expedition to Spitzbergen in the Hecla 1827; surgeon in the Terror, relieving ice bound whaling ships 1836; surgeon of the Erebus in Ross’s expedition to the Antartic 1839–43; surgeon of the William and Mary yacht at Woolwich 1845–8, of the Fisgard flagship at Woolwich 1847 to Dec. 1848; sent out in the North Star in search of Franklin 1852, when in the command of an open boat, the Forlorn Hope, in a 3 weeks’ exploration he settled the question of the opening between Baring bay and Jones’ sound; arctic medal 1857; deputy inspector of hospitals 20 May 1859, placed on retired list 29 July 1865; Greenwich hospital pension 3 Sep. 1876; author of Narrative of a boat expedition up the Wellington channel in the year 1852. 1854. _d._ Hecla villa, Wimbledon, Surrey 28 Oct. 1890. _R. Mc Cormick’s Voyages in the Arctic and Antartic seas_ 2 _vols._ (1884), _memoir ii_ 183–368, _three portraits_.

MC CORMICK, WILLIAM. _b._ Londonderry 1801; M.P. Londonderry 1860–65; contractor for public works 14 Buckingham st. Strand, London. _d._ London 12 June 1878.

M’CREA, ROBERT CONTART. _b._ 13 Jany. 1793; entered navy 23 Nov. 1803; present at Trafalgar; commander Scourge revenue cruiser 1818–21; captain 10 Jany. 1837; commander of the Zebra, forcibly removed the ex-rajah of Queda from his abode at Bruas on the coast of Perak and carried him a prisoner to Penang, April 1837, for which he was presented by H.E.I.C. with a piece of plate value 100 guineas; admiral on h.p. 8 April 1868. _d._ Guernsey 13 Jany. 1875. _United Service mag. March 1875 p._ 407.

M’CREE, GEORGE WILSON. _b._ Newcastle-on-Tyne 28 April 1822; commenced preaching in village chapels 1839; a missionary in London working among the poor of the Five dials and the Seven dials, known as the bishop of St. Giles’ 1848–73; pastor of the Borough road Baptist chapel, Southwark 1873 to death; sec. of Band of hope union; an originator of the London temperance hospital, Hampstead road 1873; edited The band of hope record 4 vols. 1861–4; author of Illustrations of peace principles 1845; Day and night in St. Giles’, a lecture 1862; The pitman’s prayer, a voice from New Hartley colliery 1862; Shadows of city life 1873; William Brock, a biography 3 ed. 1876; Thomas Wilson the silkman 1879; Poets, painters and players 1882; The Queen’s health, a word for the jubilee year 1887. _d._ 16 Ampton place, Gray’s inn road, London 25 Nov. 1892. _Black and White 17 Dec. 1892 p._ 696, _portrait_; _Times 28 Nov. 1892 p._ 6.

M’CRIE, THOMAS (eld. son of Thomas Mc Crie, ecclesiastical historian 1772–1835). _b._ Edinburgh 7 Nov. 1797; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; secession minister of Crieff 1820–8 and of Clola, Aberdeenshire 1828–36; minister of West Richmond st. meeting-house Edinburgh 1836; a contributor to The Witness; professor of theology at the Original secession hall, Edinb. 1836; the Seceders joined the Free church of Scotland 1852; moderator of the Free church assembly 1856; professor of church history and systematic theology at London college of English presbyterian church Oct. 1856 to 1866; D.D. Aberdeen and LL.D. Glasgow; edited The British and foreign evangelical review, Edinb.; author of Life of Thomas Mc Crie 1840; Sketches of Scottish church history 1841, 5 ed. 1875; The ancient history of the Waldensian church 1845; Lectures on Christian baptism 1850; Memoirs of Sir Andrew Agnew 1850, 2 ed. 1851; Thoughts on union with the free church of Scotland 1852; Annals of English presbyterianism 1872; The story of the Scottish church from the reformation to the disruption 1874. _d._ 39 Minto st. Edinburgh 9 May 1875. _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 349–56, _portrait_.

MACCULLOCH, HORATIO (son of a weaver). _b._ Glasgow, Nov. 1805, and named after lord Nelson; apprenticed to a house-painter; painter of snuff-boxes for Messrs. Smith at Cumnock, Ayrshire 1824; engaged colouring prints in Edinburgh; landscape painter at Glasgow to 1838, then at Edinb.; exhibited at R.S.A. from 1829, an associate 1834, an academician 1838, exhibited Bothwell castle on the Clyde 1863; exhibited 2 pictures at R.A. London and 1 at B.I. 1843–8; the most popular landscape painter of his day in Scotland; illustrated J. P. Lawson’s Scotland delineated 1847; and with others W. Beattie’s Scotland illustrated 1838. _d._ St. Colme’s villa, Trinity, Edinburgh 24 June 1867, two portraits of him by Sir Daniel Macnee are in national gallery of Scotland. _Fraser’s Scottish landscape, the works of H. Macculloch_ (1872), _life pp._ 9–39, _portrait_; _Chambers’s Biog. Dict. of Scotsmen_, _iii_ 11–13 (1875).

MC CULLOCH, SIR JAMES (son of George Mc Culloch). _b._ Glasgow 1819; in office of J. and A. Dennistoun, merchants, Glasgow 1839, became a partner 1853, and going to Melbourne, Australia, opened a branch establishment there April 1853, firm wound up 1862; founded house of Mc Culloch, Sellar and Co. 1862; nominee member of Victoria legislative council 1854; elected for Wimmera to first legislative assembly 24 Oct. 1856; formed a government, himself being commissioner of trade and customs 29 April 1857, resigned 10 March 1858; member for East Melbourne 1858, treasurer 27 Oct. 1859 to 26 Nov. 1860; member for Mornington 1862, chief secretary 27 June 1863 to 6 May 1868, chief sec. and treasurer 11 July 1868 to 20 Sep. 1869, chief sec. 9 April 1870 to 19 June 1871; knighted by patent 4 June 1870; agent general for Victoria in London 1872–3; K.C.M.G. 9 March 1874; premier and treasurer of Victoria 20 Oct. 1875 to 21 May 1877. _d._ Garbard hall, Ewell, Surrey 30 Jany. 1893.

M’CULLOCH, JAMES MELVILLE (1 son of John M’Culloch 1783–1845). _b._ St. Andrews 25 Feb. 1801; ed. at the United coll. St. Andrews, M.A. 1821, then at St. Mary’s coll.; master gram. sch. Dunkeld 1821–6; head master Circus place sch. Edinb. Jany. 1826 to Feb. 1829; minister St. Vigean’s chapel, Arbroath 25 Feb. 1829 to 1832; minister of parish ch. Kelso 27 Sep. 1832 to 1843; D.D. of St. Andrews 1841; minister of the west parish, Greenock 23 Nov. 1843 to death; presented on his jubilee with a salver and £1260, Feb. 25, 1879; author of Lectures on the advantages which the church derives from an alliance with the state 1835; Pietas juvenilis, a manual of devotion for schools 1838. _d._ Greenock 12 Jany. 1883. _Sermons by J. M. M’Culloch_ (1884), _memoir pp. vii–lvi_, _portrait_; _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy 2 Ser._ (1849) 289–94.

MC CULLOCH, JOHN RAMSAY (eld. son of Edward Mc Culloch). _b._ Isle of Whithorn, Wigtownshire 1 March 1789; ed. at Kinross and univ. of Edinb.; wrote the economical articles for The Scotsman 1817–27, edited it 1818–20; contributed 76 articles to Edinburgh Review 1818–37; delivered the Ricardo memorial lectures in London 1824; professor of political economy at London univ. 1828–32; comptroller of the Stationery Office 1838 to death; a foreign associate of Institute of France 1843; granted civil list pension of £200, 30 June 1846; author of The principles of political economy, Edinb. 1825, 7 ed. 1886; An essay on the circumstances which determine the rate of wages and the condition of the labouring classes. Edinb. 1826, 4 ed. 1868; A dictionary, practical, theoretical and historical of commerce and commercial navigation 1832–9. _d._ in the Stationery Office, Prince’s st. Storey’s gate, Westminster 11 Nov. 1864, portrait by Sir Daniel Macnee in National portrait gallery, London. _I.L.N. 26 Nov. 1864 p._ 541, _portrait_.

MC CULLOCH, WILLIAM (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ parish of St. Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh 28 Feb. 1816; ed. at high sch. Edinb. and at Addiscombe; ensign 13 Bengal N.I. 24 Sep. 1835, major 4 Sep. 1857, retired with rank of lieut.-col. 31 Dec. 1861; assistant to political agent at Manipur, April 1840, political agent there 1845–63 and 1864–7; author of An account of Manipur and the Hill tribes. Calcutta 1859. _d._ 4 April 1885.

MC CULLOUGH, JOHN EDWARD (son of a farmer). _b._ in Coleraine, Ireland 2 Nov. 1837; apprentice to a chair maker, Philadelphia, U.S. America 1853; appeared in The Belle’s stratagem at Arch theatre, Philadelphia 15 Aug. 1857; acted in Boston and other cities; travelled with Edwin Forrest playing second parts 1866–8; with Lawrence P. Barrett manager of Bush st. theatre, San Francisco, Jany. 1869; Forrest left him his MS. plays, regarding him as his legitimate successor 1872; acted throughout the States 1873–83; first appeared in England at Drury Lane theatre 25 April 1881 as Virginius, then played Othello; returned to New York 1881. _d._ in a lunatic asylum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 8 Nov. 1885. _The Theatre 1 Aug. 1881 p._ 121, _portrait_; _Illust. Sport. and Dram. News 14 May 1881 pp._ 199, 209, _portrait_; _New monthly mag. cxix_ 619–23 (1881), _portrait_.

M’CUTCHEON, JAMES. Editor of the ‘Tyrone Constitution.’ _d._ Omagh 4 Feb. 1855.

MAC DERMOTT, ROBERT (son of W. C. Mac Dermott, barrister). _b._ Upper Gloucester st. Dublin 1832; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. and M.B. 1854, M.D. 1858, gained Berkeley gold medal for Greek; professor of materia medica in Catholic univ. Ireland 1856; the best public lecturer of his time. _d._ of typhoid fever 9 Great Denmark st. Dublin 8 Oct. 1859. _Memoir of Dr. R. Mac Dermott, M.R.I.A. Dublin_ (1860).

M’DIARMID, JOHN (son of Hugh M’Diarmid, minister of Gaelic church, Glasgow). _b._ Glasgow 1790; clerk in Commercial bank, Edinburgh to 1817; amanuensis to professor John Playfair in Edinb.; with Charles Maclaren and William Ritchie established the Scotsman in Edinb. 25 Jany. 1817; edited the Dumfries and Galloway Courier, Jany. 1817, a proprietor 1820, owner of the paper 1837 to death, his son William Ritchie M’Diarmid admitted a partner 1843; published the Dumfries Magazine 1825–8; the friend of Robert Burns’ widow and her executor 1834; entertained at a public dinner at Dumfries 1847; edited Poems of W. Cooper 1819, 4 ed. 1854; Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield 1823; and Paul and Virginia 1824; author of The scrap book prose and verse. Edinb. 1821, 3 ed. 1825; Letters of Junius, with dissertations and notes. By Atticus Secundus 1822; Sketches from nature 1830; Pictures of Dumfries and its environs 1832. _d._ Dumfries 18 Nov. 1852; a M’Diarmid bursary of £10 a year founded at Edinb. univ. _W. Anderson’s Scottish Nation_, _iii_ 720–2 (1863).

MACDONALD, ALEXANDER. 2 lieut. R.A. 3 Dec. 1803; lieut.-colonel 20 July 1840 to 9 Nov. 1846; served in the Peninsula and South of France 1809–14; C.B. 19 July 1838; L.G. 20 June 1854. _d._ Aix-la-Chapelle 31 May 1856.

MACDONALD, ALEXANDER. _b._ New Monkland, Lanarkshire, June 1821; commenced working in a coal pit 1831; at the age of 21 had saved £250; ed. Glasgow univ. 1851 still working as a collier during the summer and autumn; a teacher 1853; agitated for release of women and children from working in coal mines 1852–72, and on laws of contract and hiring, and on the truck system; contested Kilmarnocks burghs 1868; M.P. Stafford 1874 to death, the first working man member, known as the Working Men’s member of parliament; sec. of Miners’ association of Scotland; president of Miners’ national union 1863; visited the U.S. America 3 times; presented by the miners with £1500, Jany. 1873; member of royal commission on trade unions 1874. _d._ Well hall near Hamilton 31 Oct. 1881. _bur._ New Monkland ch. yard 7 Nov. _The Biograph_, _Aug. 1880 pp._ 148–57; _I.L.N. lxiv_ 551, 552 (1874), _portrait_.

MACDONALD, ANGUS. _b._ Aberdeen 1816; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen and univ. of Edinb., M.D. Edinb. 1864; M.R.C.P. Edinb. 1868, F.R.C.P. 1869; practised at Edinb. 1864 to death; lecturer at Minto house, afterwards at Surgeons’ hall; phys. and clinical lecturer on diseases of women in Edinb. royal infirmary; phys. to royal maternity hospital, Edinb.; F.R.S. Edinb. 1871; edited R. E. S. Jackson’s Notebook of materia medica, Edinb. 1871, another ed. 1875; author of The bearings of chronic diseases of the heart upon pregnancy 1878. _d._ 29 Charlotte sq. Edinburgh 10 Feb. 1886.

MACDONALD, DUNCAN GEORGE FORBES (youngest son of John Macdonald 1799–1849, called ‘The Apostle of the North’). _b._ about 1823; agricultural engineer in London and Dingwall 1848, also practised as a civil engineer; one of comrs. to adjust boundary line of British North America about 1858; drainage engineer of improvements under control of enclosure comrs. for England and Wales; engineer in chief to inspector general of Highland destitution; F.G.S., F.R.G.S.; author of What the farmer may do with the land 1852; British Columbia and Vancouver’s island, a description of these dependencies 1862; Hints on farming and estate management 10 ed. 1869; Napoleon III. and the Franco-German war 1871; Cattle, sheep and deer 1872; The Highland crofters of Scotland 1878; Grouse disease 1883. _d._ Lymington house, Brighton 3 Jany. 1884.

MACDONALD, ELIZABETH (dau. of Renald Macdonald of Scotland). _b._ 1772; sent by her guardian to school at Calais; received 22 May 1794 at the Benedictine monastery of the Glorious assumption of the B.V.M. founded at Brussels by Lady Mary Percy in 1597; fled with the community to England in 1794; received the habit of religion and took the names of Mary Benedict at the convent St. Peter st. Winchester 11 May 1795 and was the first to be professed there 8 Sep. 1796; elected 15th abbess of the community 9 Sep. 1811, the ceremony of her benediction took place 10 Oct. 1811, tendered her resignation to cardinal Wiseman, resignation accepted 25 Feb. 1848. _d._ at the convent, Winchester 17 May 1854.

MACDONALD, GEORGE. _b._ 10 Oct. 1784; ensign 27 foot 5 Sep. 1805, captain 17 Aug. 1815, placed on h.p. 25 Feb. 1816; captain 16 foot 5 Sep. 1816, lieut.-col. 10 Jany. 1837, placed on h.p. 7 July 1841; governor of Sierra Leone 17 Dec. 1841 to March 1845; col. of 96 foot 27 Dec. 1860, of 16 foot 13 Feb. 1863 to death; general 25 Oct. 1871; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Torquay 1 March 1883. _Graphic_, _xxv_ 181 (1883) _portrait_.

MACDONALD, HUGH. _b._ Bridgeton, Glasgow 4 April 1817; apprenticed to a block-printer; kept a provision shop in Bridgeton; a block-printer at Paisley to 1849; wrote for the Glasgow Citizen 1849–53 and for the Glasgow Sentinel 1855; edited the Glasgow Times; literary editor of Morning Journal 1858 to death; author of Rambles round Glasgow 2 ed. 1856; Days at the coast, sketches of the Frith of Clyde 1874. _d._ 16 March 1860. _Hugh Macdonald’s Poetical Works_ (1865), _memoir_; _Rev. Charles Rogers’s Leaves from my autobiography_ (1876) 286–7.

MACDONALD, JAMES. Comedian in North of England; lessee of the Shields, Scarborough and Hartlepool theatres; lessee of T.R. Darlington to 1871; held a responsible position at Drury Lane theatre under F. B. Chatterton 1871–9. _d._ Newcastle-on-Tyne 25 Jany. 1889 aged 60.

MAC DONALD, JAMES. _b._ Hopeman, Elginshire 1842; in the house of W. P. Nimmo, bookseller, Edinb. 1860, then a traveller for Nimmo in Scotland; traveller for G. Waterston and Sons, Edinb. till 1870; Canadian traveller for W. Collins, Sons and co. 1870–80; partner with John Walker and William Barringer as J. Walker & Co. booksellers, Warwick lane, Paternoster row, London 1880 to death; _killed_ while crossing the line at Beckenham station, Kent 15 Aug. 1891. _bur._ Elmer’s End cemetery.

MACDONALD, JAMES WILLIAM BOSVILLE (2 son of Godfrey Macdonald, 3 baron Macdonald 1775–1832). _b._ 31 Oct. 1810; ensign 81 foot 1 Oct. 1829; cornet 1 life guards 1831, captain 24 June 1837 to 30 Dec. 1842; private sec. to commander in chief at head quarters 15 July 1856 to death; present at battles of Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and at siege of Sebastopol; col. 21 hussars 1 July 1880 to death; general 1 July 1881; deputy ranger of Hyde park; C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._ St. Leonards-on-Sea 4 Jany. 1882. _Army and navy mag. iii_ 399 (1882), _portrait_.

MACDONALD, SIR JOHN (eld. son of Alexander Macdonald, major in the army 1762–1808). _b._ 10 Sep. 1788; ensign 88 foot 17 Dec. 1803, captain 7 Sep. 1809; major Portuguese service 25 Oct. 1814; major 91 foot 29 Nov. 1821, lieut.-col. 23 Sep. 1824 to 26 April 1827 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 92 foot 21 Nov. 1828 to 9 Nov. 1846; commanded the force sent to suppress Irish insurrection of July 1848; col. 92 foot 25 May 1855 to death; general 7 March 1862; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 4 Feb. 1856. _d._ Dun Alastair, Perthshire 24 June 1866.

MACDONALD, JOHN (son of Wm. Macdonald). _b._ Strathglass, Invernessshire 2 July 1818; ed. at the Scots seminary, Ratisbon 1830–7 and Scots college at Rome 1837–40; ordained priest 1841; missioner of Tombae, Banffshire 1841–2, of Glenmoriston, Inverness 1842–4, of Dornie Kintail, Ross 1844, and of Braemar 1844–5; assistant at Inverness 1845–8; missioner Frassnakyle, Strathglass 1848–56; chaplain to Lord Lovat at Eskdale 1856–68; co-adjutor vicar-apostolic of northern district of Scotland, Nov. 1868, vicar-apostolic 23 Feb. 1869; consecrated at Aberdeen bishop of northern district by title of bishop of Nicopolis 24 Feb. 1869; bishop of restored diocese of Aberdeen 29 Jany. 1878 to death. _d._ Aberdeen 4 Feb. 1889. _Brady’s Catholic hierarchy_, _iii_ 475–6 (1877).

MACDONALD, SIR JOHN ALEXANDER (1 son of Hugh Macdonald, yeoman of Sutherlandshire). _b._ George st. Glasgow 11 Jany. 1815; emigrated to Canada with his parents 1820; ed. at royal gram. sch. Kingston; member of bar of Upper Canada 1836; bencher of Law Soc. of Ontario; head of firm of Macdonald and Marsh, Toronto; Q.C. 1846; representative of Kingston in house of assembly 1844–67; receiver general May 1847; commissioner of crown lands 1848; attorney general for Canada West 1854, 1858–62 and 1864; leader of the conservative party 1856–8; postmaster general 1858 for one day; minister of militia 1862 and 1865; P.C. of Canada 1867; minister of justice and attorney general 1867–73; K.C.B. 29 June 1867, G.C.B. 21 Aug. 1884; D.C.L. Oxf. 21 June 1865; took an active part in the federation of the British North American provinces 1864–67 under name of Dominion of Canada; premier of the United provinces July 1867 to 6 Nov. 1873 and 1878 to death; one of 5 British commissioners on treaty of Washington, Feb. 1871; P.C. of Great Britain 14 Aug. 1879; favoured construction of Canadian Pacific railway opened 28 June 1886; was so like lord Beaconsfield that he was called the Canadian Disraeli. _d._ Earnscliffe hall near Ottawa 6 June 1891, memorial marble bust unveiled in south aisle of the crypt chapel of St. Paul’s cathedral, London 16 Nov. 1892. _E. G. Collins’s Life of Sir John Macdonald_ (1892), 2 _portraits_; _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 237; _Appleton’s American biography_, _iv_ 102–4 (1888), _portrait_; _Black and White 13 June 1891 p._ 602, _portrait_; _St. Stephen’s Review 7 March 1891_, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxxiii_ 5 (1858), _portrait_.

MAC DONALD, JOHN CAMERON (son of a factor for lord Abinger). _b._ Fort William, Invernessshire, June 1822; a reporter on The Times 1842, wrote also descriptive articles on Ireland 1848, on Great Exhibition 1851, Sydenham crystal palace 1854, Chobham camp 1853 and duke of Wellington’s funeral 1852; accompanied prince consort on his visit to emperor of the French at Boulogne 1853; distributed The Times Crimean sick and wounded fund in Russia 1855; a student at an inn of court; manager of The Times printing establishment 1855; printed from stereotype plates 1860; with Joseph Calverley invented the Walter press 1862–71; printed from stereotype plates from continuous rolls of paper 1866; manager of The Times 1873 to death; managed the case of The Times before the special commission on Irish affairs 22 Oct. 1888 to 22 Nov. 1889, which with damages for insertion of forged letters cost The Times a large sum of money. _d._ Waddon near Croydon 10 Dec. 1889. _The Times 11, 12, 16 and 25 Dec. 1889_; _I.L.N. 21 Dec. 1889 p._ 786, _portrait_; _Graphic 21 Dec. 1889 p._ 753, _portrait_.

MACDONALD, LAWRENCE (son of Alexander Macdonald, violinist). _b._ Boneyview, Findo-Gask, Perthshire 15 Feb. 1799; apprenticed to Thomas Gibson, mason; an ornamental sculptor in Edinburgh to 1822; entered Trustees’ academy, Edinb. 26 Feb. 1822; studied at Rome 1822–6 where he helped to found British academy of arts 1823, trustee to death; sculptor at Edinburgh 1827–32 and at Rome 1832 to death; exhibited 48 pieces of sculpture at R. A. 1828–57; exhibited in royal institution, Edinb. 1829 colossal group of ‘Ajax bearing the dead body of Patroclus and combating a Trojan warrior’; second to Charles Maclaren in his duel with James Browne, fought near Edinb. 12 Nov. 1829; member of Scottish academy 1829–58. _d._ Rome 4 March 1878. _bur._ cemetery of Porta San Paolo. _P. R. Drummond’s Perthshire_ (1879) 109–26; _R. Brydall’s Art in Scotland_ (1889) 190.

M’DONALD, NORMAN HILTON (only son of sir John M’Donald, K.C.B., adjutant general). Controller of the lord chamberlain’s department 1852 to death; siezed with apoplexy while talking with the marchioness of Ely at lady Elizabeth Hope Vere’s. _d._ lord chamberlain’s office, St. James’s palace, London 1 Dec. 1857.

MACDONALD, NORMAN WILLIAM. _b._ 1808; governor of Sierra Leone 7 April 1846 to 13 Sep. 1852. _d._ Priory field house, Taunton 13 May 1893.

M’DONALD, PETER (son of Randal M’Donald). b. Kilfinane, co. Limerick 1836; ed. French college, Blackrock; a commercial traveller; partner in firm of Cantwell and M’Donald, wine merchants and distillers, Dublin; M.P. North Sligo division in the Anti-Parnellite interest Dec. 1885 to death; sheriff of Dublin 1886. _d._ Clarinda park, Kingstown 12 March 1891. _Daily Graphic 17 March 1891 p._ 8, _portrait_.

MACDONALD, REGINALD GEORGE (eld. son of John Macdonald of Clanronald, captain 22 dragoons 1764–94). _b._ Aug. 1788; M.P. Plympton 1812–24. _d._ 22 Clarendon road, Kensington 11 March 1873.

MACDONALD, ROBERT (son of Alexander Macdonald, wine merchant). _b._ Perth 18 May 1813; ed. St. Andrew’s univ., D.D. 1870, and at Edinb. univ.; presbyterian minister Longiealmond, Perthshire 1836 and at Blairgowrie 1837–43; Free ch. minister at Blairgowrie 1843–57 and at North Leith 1857; author of Lessons for the present from the records of the past 1848; From day to day, helpful words for christian life 1879. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy 2 Ser._ (1849) 156–61; _Wylie’s Disruption worthies_ (1881) 36–70.

MACDONALD, WILLIAM (son of John Macdonald of Carraden, Linlithgow). _b._ 1784; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1805, M.A. 1807; V. of Broad Hinton, Cricklade 1809; V. of Chitterne 1812; V. of Bishops-Cannings, Wilts. 14 April 1815 to death; canon of Bitton in Salisbury cath. 1823 to death; archdeacon of Wilts. 21 June 1828 to death; author of Select works of John Douglas bishop of Carlisle, with a memoir. Salisbury 1820; A series of plain sermons on the leading articles of the christian faith 1824. _d._ Bishops-Cannings 24 June 1862. _W. H. Jones’s Fasti_ (1879) 177.

MACDONALD, WILLIAM. _b._ 21 April 1797; ed. Edinb. univ., M.D. 1818; F.R.C.P. Edinb. 1836; lecturer comparative anatomy, Lane’s medical school, London; professor of natural history in the united colleges, St. Andrews 12 Aug. 1850 to death. _d._ 20 Queen st. St. Andrews 1 Jany. 1875.

MACDONALD, WILLIAM (son of a bootcloser). _b._ Newcastle 1859; a newspaper boy in Sunderland; in training stable of James Watson, Belleisle, Richmond, Yorks. 1871–4; won the Princess of Wales plate on Tetrarch at Sandown 27 April 1875, and the Autumn cup on Bugle 18 Oct. 1877; in 1877 had 130 mounts and was a winner in 13, in 1878 had 248 mounts winning 35 times, and in 1880 had 355 mounts winning 47; rode also in France 1878–9; at Epsom in 1881 was second on Retreat for the Derby; won the Cesarewitch stakes on Chippendale 1879 and on Foxhall 1881; won Prince of Wales stakes at Ascot 1880; when riding Buchanan for Liverpool cup, fell and was kicked on the head 12 Nov. 1881. _d._ Sefton arms hotel, Liverpool 12 Nov. 1881. _Sporting Mirror_, _ii_ 161–4 (1881), _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _xvi_ 238, 245 (1881), _portrait_.

MACDONALD, WILLIAM BELL (eld. son of Donald Macdonald). _b._ Scotland 1807; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, B.A. 1827; served as surgeon in sir Pulteney Malcolm’s flagship in the Mediterranean 1828–31; a comr. of supply; one of the greatest linguists of his time, making a special study of Coptic; collected a valuable library at his estate Rammerscales; a contributor to the Ray Society on zoology and botany 1845–6; represented burgh of Lochmaben in general assembly of church of Scotland some years; author of Lusus Philologici. Ex museo Gul. B. Macdonald. Rammerscales 1851; Ten Scottish songs rendered into German 1854; Sketch of a Coptic grammar adapted for self-tuition 1856. _d._ 114 West Campbell st. Glasgow 5 Dec. 1862. _Gent. Mag. March 1863 p._ 390; _Inglis’s Dramatic Writers of Scotland_ (1868) 71.

MACDONALD, WILLIAM RUSSELL. _b._ 1787; editor and part proprietor of Bell’s Life in London, the Sunday Herald, the British Drama, and the Literary Humourist; author of A paraphrase of R. Dodsley’s Economy of human life 1817; Fudge in Ireland, a collection of letters, poems, etc. 1822, anon.; Christianity, protestantism and popery compared and contrasted 1829, anon.; The book of quadrupeds 1838; First and second lessons for the nursery 1838. _d._ Great James st. Bedford row, London 30 Dec. 1854.

MAC DONELL, SIR ALEXANDER (eld. son of Hugh Mac Donell, consul general, Algiers). _b._ Algiers 24 Feb. 1820; ensign rifle brigade 23 June 1837, major 22 Dec. 1854, lieut.-col. 16 June 1857 to 22 Feb. 1871; served in Kaffir war 1846–7; present at Balaclava, Alma and Inkerman; commanded 2 bat. May 1855 to fall of Sebastopol, medal with 3 clasps; commanded 3 bat. in Indian mutiny, present at capture of Lucknow; served in campaign of north-west frontier of India 1864; commanded expedition against Mohund tribes 1863–4; brigadier general Bengal 22 March 1867 to 23 Oct. 1871; major general Bengal 12 April 1872 to 31 March 1877; C.B. 27 July 1855, K.C.B. 24 May 1881; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877, retired 1 April 1882 with rank of general; colonel commandant 2 bat. rifle brigade 24 Jany. 1886 to death. _d._ Hackbridge, Carshalton, Surrey 30 April 1891. _I.L.N. 16 May 1891 p._ 639, _portrait_.

MAC DONELL, EWEN (son of lieut.-col. Archibald Mac Donell, lieut. governor of Edinburgh castle). _b._ 1807; studied medicine; entered H.E.I.C. 1835; a doctor; during the mutiny he raised the Sewan levy, received the mutiny medal, accorded special thanks of government of India and a letter of approbation from the queen. _d._ 59 Nevern square, Earl’s court, London 20 May 1891.

MACDONELL, SIR JAMES (3 son of Duncan Macdonell, chief of Glengarry). _b._ Glengarry house, Invernessshire; ensign in an independent company 1793; lieut. 78 foot 1794; captain 17 light dragoons 1 Dec. 1795, major 1802; major 78 foot 17 April 1804, lieut.-col. 7 Sep. 1809; served in Naples, Sicily and Egypt 1806–7; lieut.-col. 2 garrison battalion 21 Feb. 1811; captain 2 foot guards 11 Aug. 1811, lieut.-col. 27 May 1825 to 22 July 1830; served in the Peninsula May 1812 to Jany. 1814, and at battle of Waterloo, where he held the chateau of Hougoumont against the French, was one of the persons who helped to shut the gate of the chateau; commanded the Armagh district 1831–8; commanded brigade of guards in Canada 1838; commanded the troops in Canada to 1841; col. of 79 foot 14 July 1842 to 8 Feb. 1849 and of 71 foot 8 Feb. 1849 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 20 April 1838, G.C.B. 5 July 1855; K.C.H. 1837; had decorations of Maria Theresa of Austria and of St. Vladimir of Russia. _d._ 15 Wilton place, London 15 May 1857. _Stewart’s Scottish Highlanders_, _ii_ 292–322 (1822); _Mackinnon’s Coldstream Guards_, _ii_ 214–17 (1833).

MACDONELL, JAMES (eld. son of James Macdonell, excise officer _d._ 1858). _b._ Dyce, Aberdeenshire 21 April 1842; left the church of Rome and joined the Baptists 1860; wrote leading articles in the Aberdeen Free Press 1858; on the staff of Daily Review in Edinb. 1862; editor of the Northern Daily Express at Newcastle 1862 at £150 a year to 1865; on the staff of the Daily Telegraph in London 1865–75, the special correspondent in France 9 Dec. 1871 to May 1872; leader writer on The Times 25 March 1875 to death; wrote many articles in Fraser’s Mag., North British Review and Macmillan’s Mag.; author of France since the first empire 1879. _d._ 78 Gower st. Bedford sq. London 2 March 1879. _bur._ Beckenham churchyard, Kent 6 March. _James Macdonell, journalist. By W. R. Nicoll_ (1890), _portrait_.

MC DONNELL, SIR ALEXANDER, 1 Baronet (eld. son of James Mc Donnell, M.D.) _b._ Belfast 1794; ed. at Westminster 1809–13, King’s scholar 1809; student of Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1813–26; B.A. 1816, M.A. 1820; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1824; a comr. of inquiry into public charities; chief clerk in office of chief secretary for Ireland; resident comr. of Irish board of education 1839 to Dec. 1871, being thus the real creator of England’s one successful institution in Ireland; P.C. Ireland 1846; created baronet 20 Jany. 1872. _d._ 32 Upper Fitzwilliam st. Dublin 21 Jany. 1875. _bur._ at Kilsharvan near Drogheda. _Spectator 20 Feb. 1875 pp._ 240–1.

MC DONNEL, SIR EDWARD. _b._ Dublin 1806; a paper manufacturer, Dublin; chairman of Great southern and western railway of Ireland 1849 to death, knighted by earl of Clarendon on opening this railway to Cork 1849; lord mayor of Dublin 1854. _d._ 31 Merrion square south, Dublin 22 Nov. 1860.

MC DONNELL, EDWARD (son of sir Edward Mc Donnell of Dunfeirth house, Kildare). Resident Melbourne, Australia to 1866; professor in Xavier coll. Calcutta, Jany. 1866; on the staff of the Calcutta Englishman 1866; editor of Lahore chronicle 1867; sub-editor of Bombay gazette 1867, then special correspondent on staff of general Napier in Abyssinia; in Dublin, June 1868. _The Newspaper Press 1 Feb. 1869 p._ 49.

MAC DONNELL, ENEAS (4 son of Charles Mac Donnell of Clonagh, co. Mayo). _b._ Westport, co. Mayo 27 July 1783; ed. at lay college of Maynooth; one of chief promoters of cause of Catholic emancipation 1810–23, when new catholic association was formed; agent to Irish catholics in England 1824–29; imprisoned for an alleged libel against the government 1816, and for another alleged libel against the character of archdeacon French 1828; author of The hermit of Glenconella, a tale 1820; Catholic question, letters on securities 1829; The Roman catholic oath considered 1835; Vindication of the house of lords, letters to The Times 1836; The ‘Crisis’ unmasked 1843; Letter to W. E. Gladstone respecting the Maynooth grant 1845; Address and advice to his countrymen 1849. _d._ Lara, Kildare 3 Jany. 1858. _Law Times_, _xxxi_ 178 (1858).

MC DONNELL, RANDAL W. Called to bar in Ireland 1856; Q.C. 30 Jany. 1869. _d._ Bournemouth 5 Jany. 1875.

MAC DONNELL, RICHARD (eld. son of Robert Mac Donnell of Douglas, co. Cork). _b._ 1787; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1803, B.A. 1805, LL.B. 1810, LL.D. 1813, M.A., B.D. and D.D. 1821; fellow of his college 1808, senior fellow Nov. 1836 to 1852, Donegal lecturer 1820–7; professor of oratory in Trin. coll. Dublin 1816–52, regius professor of laws 1840–1, regius professor of Greek 1843–52, provost 24 Jany. 1852 to death. _d._ Provost’s house, Trinity college, Dublin 24 Jany. 1867. _bur._ under chapel of Trin. coll. 28 Jany.

MACDONNELL, SIR RICHARD GRAVES (eld. son of Richard Macdonnell _d._ 1867). _b._ Dublin 3 Sep. 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1833, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1836, LL.B. 1845, LL.D. 1862; called to Irish bar 1838; barrister L.I. 25 Jany. 1841; chief justice of the Gambia 20 July 1843 to 1 Oct. 1847; governor of British settlements on the Gambia 1 Oct. 1847 to 23 Feb. 1852, conducted several exploring expeditions opening up the interior of Africa from the Gambia to the Senegal; administrator of St. Vincent 23 Feb. 1852 to 6 Nov. 1854; governor of South Australia 8 June 1855 to 4 March 1862; lieut.-governor of Nova Scotia 28 May 1864 to Oct. 1865; governor of Hong Kong 19 Oct. 1865, retired on pension 1872; C.B. 12 Feb. 1852; knighted at Buckingham palace 28 Jany. 1856; K.C.M.G. 23 Feb. 1871. _d._ Hyères, France 5 Feb. 1881. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 14 Feb. _I.L.N. lxxviii_ 220, 222 (1881), _portrait_.

MC DONNELL, ROBERT (2 son of John Mc Donnell, M.D. medical commissioner of local government board, _b._ 1796, living 1889). _b._ Dublin 15 March 1828; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1844, B.A. and M.B. 1850, M.D. 1857; apprenticed to Richard Carmichael, surgeon 1845–9; M.R.C.S. Ireland 1851, F.R.C.S. 1853, pres. 1877; attached to British hospital at Smyrna 1855 and to general hospital in camp before Sebastopol 1855–6; demonstrator of anatomy in Carmichael school of medicine Dublin 1856, lecturer on anatomy and physiology; medical superintendent of Mountjoy prison 1857–67; surgeon to Jervis st. hospital Dublin 1863; M.D. Queen’s univ. Ireland 1864; surgeon to Stevens’s hospital, Dublin, and professor of descriptive anatomy in its medical school 1866; member of council of univ. of Dublin twice; F.R.S. 1 June 1865; pres. of academy of medicine in Ireland 1885–8; author of many scientific papers; edited Selections from the works of A. Colles in New Sydenham Soc. 1881; author of Observations on the function of the liver 1865; Lectures on surgery, two parts 1871–75; What has experimental physiology done 1882. _d._ 89 Merrion sq. west, Dublin 6 May 1889. _Sir C. Cameron’s History of college of surgeons in Ireland_ (1886) 429–32.

MC DONNELL, THOMAS. _b._ 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1811, B.A. 1813; called to Irish bar 1816; Q.C. 1 July 1837; a crown prosecutor for co. of Down. _d._ Eglantine hill near Belfast 25 Sep. 1878.

MC DONOGH, ALLEN. _b._ Galway 1804; one of the best known steeplechasers in Ireland; won a steeplechase on Sir William 1830, sold him to John Elmore for £350 who resold him to lord Cranstown for £1000; rode Sir William in a match for £1000 against Jerry for 4 miles over the Quorn country and won; won over 20 steeplechases on Brunette a mare belonging to Mr. Preston 1847 etc. _d._ Dublin, May 1888. _Baily’s Mag. xlix_ 269–70 (1888).

MC DONOGH, FRANCIS (son of Morgan Mc Donogh of Sligo). _b._ 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1864; called to Irish bar 1829; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1842; counsel to inland revenue department; one of counsel for the defence of D. O’Connell 1843; contested Carrickfergus 2 April 1857; M.P. Sligo 1860–65. _d._ 41 Rutland sq. Dublin 18 April 1882. _Irish law times_, _xvi_ 177 (1882).

MAC DOUALL, CHARLES. _b._ 1814; professor of humanity, Queen’s coll. Belfast, Oct. 1849, then professor of Greek 1851 to death; author of A discourse on the study of oriental languages 1849. _d._ Belfast 24 Feb. 1883; his library sold at Sotheby’s, London 20–23 Feb. 1884. _Testimonials in favor of C. Mac Douall as candidate for Greek chair in Univ. of Edinb._ 1852.

MACDOUGAL, DONALD (son of a farmer). _b._ 1800; apprentice to Mr. Bremner, draper, Inverness; a draper Inverness, waited upon customers in their hotels with selections of his goods, originator of the tweed trade in Scotland; chief exhibitioner at Great Exhibition of 1851 of tweeds, plaids, brooches, shawls, &c., his stall became famous and was figured in I.L.N., he was also noticed in Punch 1851; became an advertiser with the motto ‘When you are in the Highlands visit Macdougal’s’; in 1856 paid his creditors in full and was entertained at a banquet in Glasgow 30 April 1857; made a speciality of tartans and plaids; retired 1861; gave a working men’s club to Inverness 1862; presented with his bust in Carrara marble 18 March 1879. _The Biograph_, _v_ 544–9 (1881).

MAC DOUGAL, THOMAS ST. CLAIR. _b._ Jany. 1804; a master in Islington proprietory school; first master of lower department of city of London school 1837 to Dec. 1874; author of Descriptive outlines of modern geography and a short account of Palestine 1835, 12 ed. 1857. _d._ 107 Stockwell park road, Brixton 10 March 1880. _City Press 13 March 1880 p._ 3.

MC DOUGALL, ARCHIBALD. _b._ Tarbut Kintyre, Argyllshire; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; governor of Edinb. orphan hospital 1839–43; minister of Kirkfield ch. Gorbals, Glasgow 1843–47; minister of Argyll ch. Glasgow 1847; author of The family text book 1880. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy_ (1849) 398–400.

MAC DOUGALL, SIR DUNCAN (son of Patrick Mac Dougall of Soroba, Argyllshire). _b._ Soroba 1790; entered army 1804, served in Spain, France, America, West Indies and Cape of Good Hope; brigadier general second in command and quartermaster general in British auxiliary legion of Spain; lieut.-col. 79 highlanders 6 Sep. 1833 to 13 March 1835; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 July 1838; raised and disciplined Royal Lancashire artillery 1853, lieut.-col. commandant 15 April 1853 to 23 May 1857; author of Remarks on the military sanitary commission, suggestions for the improvement of the soldiery and prevention of drunkenness 1838; Remarks on national defence and the instruction of volunteer corps 1860; The history of the volunteer movement 2 ed. 1861. _d._ 112 Eaton sq. London 10 Dec. 1862.

MC DOUGALL, FRANCIS THOMAS (only son of Wm. Adair Mc Dougall, captain 88 foot). _b._ Sydenham, Kent 1817; medical student King’s college, London 1835, demonstrator of anatomy there 1838; M.R.C.S. 1839, F.R.C.S. 1854; matric. from Magd. hall, Oxf., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1845, D.C.L. 1854; rowed bow oar in the Oxford eight against Cambridge 1842; superintended iron-works in South Wales which failed 1842–4; C. of Framingham, Pigot 1845–6; C. of St. Mark’s, Lakenham 1846; C. of Ch. Ch. Woburn sq. London 1846; went to Borneo as a missionary 30 Dec. 1847; bishop of Labuan 6 Aug. 1855, consecrated at Calcutta 18 Oct. 1855, it was the first consecration that had taken place out of England; also bishop of Sarawak by appointment from the Rajah, Dec. 1855, resigned April 1868; V. of Godmanchester, Hunts. 1868–74; archdeacon of Huntingdon 1870–4; canon of Ely 1871–3; canon of Winchester 16 Oct. 1873 to death; archdeacon of Isle of Wight 1874 to death; V. of Milford, Hants. 1881–5; R. of Mottistone with Shorwell, Isle of Wight 1885 to death; (_m._ July 1843 Harriette 2 dau. of Robert John Bunyon, she preached to the native women of Borneo, she was author of Letters from Sarawak addressed to a child 1854, and Sketches of our life at Sarawak 1882, she _d._ Shorwell 7 May 1886); author of Life in death, a sermon with memoir of Capt. J. M. Boyd 3 ed. 1861; A catechism of the christian religion. English and Malay 1868. He _d._ Winchester 16 Nov. 1886. _bur._ Shorwell 20 Nov. _C. J. Bunyon’s Memoirs of F. T. Mc Dougall and of Harriette his wife_ (1889), 2 _portraits_.

MC DOUGALL, HENRY JOHN. _b._ 1820; pupil and dresser at Exeter hospital; ed. Univ. coll. hospital, London, one of the house surgeons; M.R.C.S. 1844; in practice in Henrietta st. Cavendish sq. London; intense study of the microscope led to disease of the brain; wrote on Spermatorrhœa in the Medical Times; translated F. Lallemand’s A practical treatise on the cause of spermatorrhœa 1847, 2 ed. 1851. _d._ Exeter 18 June 1853.

M’DOUGALL, SIR JOHN (2 son of Patrick M’Dougall of Dunolly castle, co. Argyle). _b._ Edinburgh 1790; entered navy 16 Dec. 1802; lieut. of the Superb at bombardment of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816; captain 16 Aug. 1836; commander of Nimrod 1833, Vulture 1845 and La Hogue 1849; senior officer at Hong Kong at capture of Bogue forts 1847; admiralty superintendent of packets at Southampton 1855; R.A. 12 May 1857, V.A. 3 Nov. 1863; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. _d._ Dunolly 12 April 1865.

MAC DOUGALL, NIEL PATRICK. _b._ 1812; entered Bombay army 1826; ensign 9 Bombay N.I. 27 June 1827; lieut. 13 N.I. 21 Aug. 1835, major 1 Aug. 1850 to 1 May 1855; lieut.-col. of 21 N.I. 1 May 1855 to 1857; lieut.-col. of 16 N.I. 1857–8, of 2 N.I. 1858–9, and of 8 N.I. 1859–61; commandant at Skikarpore 1858–9, and at Sattara 1859–60; retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. _d._ Ootacamund, Madras 10 June 1865.

MAC DOUGALL, PATRICK CAMPBELL (son of Hugh Mac Dougall, parish minister at Killin). _b._ Killin 1806; ed. at Edinburgh high sch. and univ.; classical master in Edinburgh academy 1834–44; prof. of moral philosophy in the New or Free church coll. Edinburgh 1844–53; prof. of moral philosophy in univ. of Edinburgh 1 Nov. 1853 to death; author of Introductory lecture on moral philosophy, at the inauguration of the New college 1851; Papers on literary and philosophical subjects 1852. _d._ 9 Buckingham terrace, Edinburgh 30 Dec. 1867. _Grant’s Univ. of Edinb. ii_ 77, 347–8 (1884).

M’DOUGALL, WILLIAM. _b._ Inverary; ed. at univ. of Glasgow; minister of Relief ch. Campbeltown 1823, of Kilmarnock 1827 and of Thread st. ch. Paisley 1843; author of The Saviour’s trouble of soul in anticipation of his sufferings 1836; Discourses 1848. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1849) 319–25.

MACDOWALL, CHARLES (son of Wm. Macdowall, watchmaker). _b._ Pontefract 6 April 1790; apprentice to a chemist; repaired a repeater watch without any instruction; a watchmaker at Wakefield; invented the helix lever clock 1831; at 21 Church st. Kensington, London 1836; invented the helix lever watch and the helix lever escape; patronised by the duke of Sussex when at Kensington palace, where he attended at the conversaziones to explain the inventions; removed to 41 St. James’ st. Pall Mall 1839, to 8 Victoria road, Pimlico 1840, and to 30 Hyde st. Bloomsbury 1848; patented the single pin escapement, for which he received bronze medal at Great Exhibition of 1851; experimented on the three-leg gravity escapement; re-invented the spiral drill. _d._ 26 Jermyn st. London 27 Oct. 1872. _The Horological Journal_, _Sep. 1873 pp._ 5–9, _portrait_.

M’DOWALL, CHARLES (only son of Robert M’Dowall of Sheffield). _b._ 1837; ed. Univ. coll. Oxf., scholar 1856–62; B.A. 1859, M.A. 1865, B.D. and D.D. 1882; head master’s assistant Rossall sch.; senior assistant master Malvern coll. 1864–74; head master Cholmeley high sch. Highgate, London, Jany. 1874 to death; preb. of St. Paul’s, April 1883 to death. _d._ Cholmeley school house 29 June 1893.

MACDOWALL, DAY HORT. _b._ 3 July 1795; ensign 52 foot 15 April 1813; major 44 foot 27 Nov. 1828 to 21 Feb. 1840 when placed on h.p.; col. 3 Buffs. 9 Sep. 1864 to death; L.G. 4 March 1866. _d._ 14 Sep. 1870.

M’DOWALL, WILLIAM (son of a traveller for a cabinet-making firm). _b._ Maxwelltown, Kirkcudbrightshire 21 July 1815; learnt bookbinding in Dumfries, Glasgow and London; on the staff of the Scottish Herald 1843; editor of the Dumfries and Galloway Standard 1846–53 and 1854 to death; edited a Sunderland paper 1853–4; author of The man of the woods and other poems 1844, 2 ed. 1882; Burns in Dumfriesshire 1870; History of the burgh Dumfries 1867, 2 ed. 1873; Memorials of St. Michael’s churchyard, Dumfries 1876; The mind in the face 1882, 3 ed. 1888; Chronicles of Lincluden as an abbey and as a college 1886; Among the old Scottish minstrels 1888. _d._ Dumfries 28 Oct. 1888. _M. Harper’s Bards of Galloway_ (1889) 77, 201, 255.

MAC DOWEL, BENJAMIN GEORGE (son of Ephraim Mac Dowel, physician). _b._ 1820; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1841, M.B. and M.D. 1858, M. Chir. 1859; L.R.C.S.I. 1841, F.R.C.S. 1845; L.R.C.P. Lond. 1846; physician to house of industry hospitals, Dublin; professor of anatomy and surgery, Trin. coll. Dublin 1858–79; examiner in medicine, royal univ. of Ireland; president of Pathological soc. Dublin 1865; a physician in ordinary to the Queen in Ireland 1881. _d._ 5 Haddington ter. Kingstown 15 Sep. 1885. _Medical times and gazette_, _ii_ 417 (1885).

MAC DOWELL, BENJAMIN FRANCIS. _b._ 1841; M.R.C.S. 1864, F.R.C.S. 1872; M.B. of Dublin univ. 1867; physician and surgeon to Mercer’s hospital and the Lock hospital, Dublin; professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Ledwich school of medicine; a contributor to The Medical Press. _d._ 29 York st. Dublin 8 Feb. 1879. _Medical Press_, _xxvii_ 135 (1879).

MACDOWELL, PATRICK (son of a tradesman). _b._ Belfast 12 Aug. 1799; apprenticed to a coachbuilder in London 1813–7; resided with Peter Francis Chenu a French sculptor in Charles st. London; exhibited 78 sculptures at R.A., 3 at B.I. and 8 at Suffolk st. 1822–70; A.R.A. 1841, R.A. 1846, retired 1870; his greatest work was the group of figures entitled Europe, at corner of the Albert memorial in Hyde Park, completed 1870, illustrated in Art Journal 1871 p. 188. _d._ 74A Margaret st. Cavendish sq. London 9 Dec. 1870. _W. B. Scott’s British school of sculpture_ (1871) 103–8; _Sandby’s History of royal academy_, _ii_ 195–7 (1862); _Art Journal_ (1850) _p._ 8 _portrait, and_ (1871) _p._ 41; _Dublin univ. mag. xxxviii_ 602–10 (1851), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxx_ 417, 418 (1857), _lvii_ 679, 681 (1870), _portrait_.

MACDUFF, JOHN. _b._ 1800; ensign 15 foot 3 Aug. 1815; captain 40 foot 13 April 1839, major 13 Nov. 1847; lieut.-col. St. Helena regiment 8 June 1849 to 30 July 1852; lieut. col. 74 foot 30 July 1852 to 11 May 1862 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 23 Oct. 1863; C.B. 28 Jany. 1862; served in India many years; commanded an infantry brigade in the Kaffir war 1852–3; commanded the Oudh division at Lucknow 1857. _d._ Newmiln-by-Stanley, Perthshire 25 Sep. 1865.

MC ELROY, JOHN. _b._ Brookeborough, co. Fermanagh 11 May 1782; emigrated to U.S. of America about 1802; entered Society of Jesus as a lay brother 1806, ordained May 1817; priest of Trinity church, Georgetown 1817–22, transferred to Frederick, Maryland 1822; built St. John’s church, a college, an academy, an orphan asylum and the first free school in Frederick; one of the two chaplains for the R.C. soldiers in the Mexican war 1846–7; pastor of St. Mary’s church, Boston 1847–62, built Boston college and the church of the immaculate conception. _d._ Frederick, Maryland 12 Sep. 1877 being the oldest Jesuit in the world.

M’ENCROE, JOHN. _b._ Tullamane near Cashel 26 Dec. 1795; ed. St. Patrick’s coll. Maynooth 1814, priest 1819, on the American mission 1822–9; in charge of St. Patrick’s ch. Sydney, Australia 1832–61; dean of Sydney, archdeacon of Sydney to death; founded the Sydney Freeman’s Journal 1850; opposed the reintroduction of convicts into New South Wales 1849; author of The christian doctrine, by A. Donlevy revised 1822; The wanderings of the human mind in searching the scriptures, a history of the principal heresies 1841. _d._ Sydney 22 Aug. 1868.

MACEWAN, ANDREW. _b._ Glasgow 1812; apprentice to James Mc Clelland, accountant to 1834; accountant Glasgow 1834 and in partnership with William Auld 1836–66; first sec. of Glasgow stock exchange 1844–5; one of the founders of Institute of accountants and actuaries, Glasgow 3 Oct. 1853. _d._ Glasgow 11 June 1866. _W. C. Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 187–8 (1886), _portrait_.

MACEWEN, ALEXANDER (12 son of Wm. Macewen, minister of Howgate secession ch. near Edinb. _d._ 1827). _b._ Howgate 5 April 1822; ed. at Glasgow univ., M.A. 1840, D.D. 1866, and univ. of Halle and Berlin; secession minister of Helensburgh church, Sep. 1845 to 1856; sent with Messrs. Harper and Eadie to report on the German catholic movement and ecclesiastical affairs of Canton de Vaud 1846; minister of Claremont united presbyterian ch. Glasgow, Aug. 1856 to death; author of The revelation embodied in scripture supernatural 1866. _d._ Glasgow 4 June 1875. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy_ (1849) 129–34; _Sermons by A. Macewen_ (1877) _memoir ix–lvi_.

MACFARLANE, DUNCAN (son of Duncan Macfarlane, minister of Drymen, Stirlingshire). _b._ Auchingray 27 Sep. 1771; ed. Glasgow univ., D.D. 1806; presbyterian minister, Drymen 1792–1823; dean of faculties Glasgow univ. 1810, and principal April 1823 to death; one of king’s chaplains 1815; moderator of general assembly 1819 and 1843; dean of the chapel royal to 1824; minister of the High ch. Glasgow 1823–43; originated colonial mission scheme 1835, its convener over 20 years; entertained at a public dinner 23 Feb. 1842; author of A treatise on the christian sabbath 1832; On the duty of prayer as connected with the day of fasting 1835; The right appointment of ministers in the church 1840; The revivals of the eighteenth century, particularly at Cambuslang 1847; Bible temperance and present duty 1847. _d._ Glasgow 25 Nov. 1857. _Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 189–90 (1886), _portrait_; _Scott’s Fasti vol._ 2 _pt._ 1 _pp._ 7, 235, 353 (1868); _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1849) 72–9.

MACFARLAN, JAMES (son of a weaver who became a pedlar). _b._ Glasgow 9 April 1832; a professional pedlar in Scotland; walked to London to get a publisher 1854; police court reporter to the Glasgow Bulletin; became a pedlar again and retailed his own books; several of his poems were printed in Household Words; author of Poems 1854; City songs and other poetical pieces 1855; Lyrics of life 1856; The wanderers of the west; An attic study, brief notes on nature, men and books 1862. _d._ Glasgow 6 Nov. 1862. _bur._ Cheapside st. ground, Glasgow. _The poetical works of James Macfarlan, with a memoir pp. i–x_ (1882); _Rev. C. Rogers’s Leaves from my autobiography_ (1876) 287–91.

MACFARLAN, JAMES (son of James Macfarlan, minister of Muiravonside near Linlithgow, author of The prophecies of Ezekiel 1845, _b._ 1800, _d._ 1871). _b._ 6 Jany. 1845; ed. at academy and univ. of Edinb.; assistant minister at Dundee 1869–71; minister of Ruthwell 1871 to death; raised money and built an apse to his ch., in which he placed the Runic cross which had been expelled by the General Assembly in 1642; collected materials for a life of Stewart Leslie the vagrant verse writer celebrated by Carlyle. _d._ Foulden, Berwickshire 7 Oct. 1889. _bur._ Ruthwell, where a memorial has been built. _Memoirs of James Macfarlan_ (1892).

MACFARLANE, CHARLES (son of Robert Macfarlane). _b._ Scotland; lived in Italy 1816–27 and in Turkey 1827–9; employed by Charles Knight the publisher many years; nominated a poor brother of the Charterhouse about July 1857; wrote the Civil and military history of England in Knight’s Pictorial history of England 8 vols. 1838–44; author of Constantinople in 1828, 2 vols. 1829; The romance of history, Italy 3 vols. 1832; The book of table talk 1836; The French revolution 4 vols. 1844–5, anon.; The romance of travel, the East 2 vols. 1846, and 30 other books. _d._ the Charterhouse, London 9 Dec. 1858.

MACFARLANE, DUGALD. _b._ Perthshire 6 June 1790; 1 lieut. 95 foot 18 July 1815; at Waterloo, and at occupation of Paris; retired on h.p. 29 Feb. 1816; one of the founders of the Canterbury province, south island, New Zealand 16 Dec. 1850. _d._ Christchurch, N.Z. Oct. 1882. _I.L.N. 2 Dec. 1882 pp._ 567, 569, _portrait_.

MACFARLANE, JAMES (2 son of rev. John Macfarlane of Bridgton, Glasgow). _b._ Waterbeck, Dumfriesshire 27 April 1808; ed. Glasgow univ., M.A., D.D. 1848; presbyterian minister East ch. Stirling 1831, of St. Bernard’s ch. Edinb. 1832 and of Duddingston, Edinb. May 1841 to death; moderator of general assembly 1865; F.R.S. Edinb.; author of Remarks on intrusion 1839; Letter to Sir James Graham on tests 1845; The late secession 1846; The church and nation 1849. _d._ Duddingston 6 Feb. 1866. _Proc. Royal Soc. Edinb. vi_ 18 (1869).

MACFARLANE, JOHN (3 son of rev. James Macfarlane 1759–1823). _b._ Dunfermline 1 April 1807; ed. at Dunfermline gr. sch. and univ. of Edinb.; minister of Kincardine-on-Forth 1831–40; minister of Nicholson st. U.P. church, Glasgow, Sep. 1840, then of Erskine church, Glasgow 1840–62; LL.D. Glasgow 1842; minister of church at Clapham, London, April 1862 to death, the members increasing from 36 to about 800; moderator of U.P. synod 1866; moderator of English provincial synod 1870; author of The mountains of the Bible, their scenes and their lessons 1849; Altar zeal 1859; The life and times of George Lawson, D.D. 1862; Pulpit echoes 1868, and 12 other books. _d._ 14 Victoria road, Clapham Common 7 Feb. 1875. _W. Graham’s Memoirs of John Macfarlane_ (1876) _portrait_; _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1849) 379–85.

MACFARLANE, ROBERT, LORD ORMIDALE (only son of Parlan Macfarlane of Glenmallashan, Dumbartonshire, tradesman). _b._ 30 July 1802; ed. at Glasgow and Edinb. univs.; a writer to the signet 29 June 1827, and in practice as an agent 1827–37; an advocate at Edinb. 9 March 1838; sheriff of Renfrewshire 22 Dec. 1853 to Jany. 1862; an ordinary lord of session with title of lord Ormidale 13 Jany. 1862 to death; reformed procedure of court of session; author of The practice of the court of session in jury causes 1837; Reports of jury trials in the courts of session 1838 to 1839, 1841; Practical notes on the structure of issues in jury cases in the court of session, parts i–viii 1844–5. _d._ Hartrigge, Jedburgh 3 Nov. 1880. _Journal of jurisprudence_, _xxiv_ 659–61 (1880).

MACFARREN, SIR GEORGE ALEXANDER (son of George Macfarren, dramatist and theatrical manager 1788–1843). _b._ 24 Villiers st. Strand, London 2 March 1813; pupil of Charles Lucas 1827–9; student R.A. of music 1829–36; taught music in a school in the Isle of Man 1836–7; his Chevy Chase overture produced at the Gewand-haus concerts, Leipsic 1836; professor of harmony and composition at R.A. of music 1837–46 and 1851; his opera The Devil’s Opera produced English opera house 13 Aug. 1838; founded the Handel society 1844, secretary 1844–8 when it ceased, edited Handel’s Belshazzar, Judas Maccabeus and Jephtha; conductor at Covent Garden theatre Jany. 1845; his operas Don Quixote produced at Drury Lane 3 Feb. 1846, Charles the Second, at Princess’s 27 Oct. 1849; his cantata May Day produced at Bradford festival 1857; became nearly blind 1860; his operas Robin Hood, produced at Her Majesty’s theatre Oct. 1860; She stoops to conquer, at Covent Garden 11 Feb. 1864; his oratorios St. John the Baptist, produced at first Bristol festival 23 Oct. 1873; The Resurrection, at Birmingham festival Sep. 1876; Joseph, at Leeds festival 21 Sep. 1877; and King David, at Leeds festival Oct. 1883; principal of R.A. of music, Feb. 1875 to death; professor of music at univ. of Camb. 16 March 1875 to death; Mus. Doc. Camb. 1875, Oxf. 1879 and Dublin 1887; M.A. Camb. 1878; knighted at Windsor Castle 22 May 1883; author of The rudiments of harmony 1860, 16 ed. 1887; Six lectures on harmony delivered at the royal institutions 1869, 3 ed. 1882; On the structure of a sonata 1871; Counterpoint, a practical course of study 1879, 4 ed. 1885. _d._ 7 Hamilton terrace, London 31 Oct. 1887. _bur._ Hampstead cemet. 5 Nov. _A life of G. A. Macfarren. By H. C. Banister_ (1891), _portrait_; _Addresses by G. A. Macfarren_ (1888), _portrait_; _Cazalet’s Royal academy of music_ (1854) 307–9; _I.L.N. lxvi_ 391, 393 (1875) _portrait_, _lxxxii_ 573 (1883) _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxvii_ 553 (1883), _portrait_.